Business Continuity Manager

Job summary

Working in the Chief Operating Office, the Business Continuity Manager will play a critical role in implementing and maintaining the Agency’s business continuity management approach and incident response capability. You will be joining our experienced team, who are committed to making positive change in how the Chief Operating Office provides a range of services that support both operational delivery and change.

Job description

This is a rare chance to shape the future business continuity planning and management in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key senior leaders and stakeholders and a professional business management team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of business continuity issues and have the opportunity to manage an effective business continuity approach across Homes England.

The role will implement and maintain the Agency’s business continuity management approach. This is an excellent opportunity to balance resilience planning, testing, training and response whilst bringing innovative solutions to the business continuity management offering.

Person specification

The day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders on business continuity, you will be used to engaging and influencing a wide range of senior stakeholders to drive organisational change. You will have experience in business continuity planning and impact analysis and always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.

You'll be comfortable with complex business continuity issues and responding to disruptive incidents and crises. You will gain support for the Business Continuity Management approach across Homes England, providing expert guidance for directorates and other relevant internal and external stakeholders. You will be proficient in specialist business continuity management to support the continued professional development of business continuity capability.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a business management team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.

As an experienced business continuity professional you’ll understand how to coordinate colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

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Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and